Nature's Work of Art: Human Body as Image of the World [Hardcover]

Leonard Barkan (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 304 pages
• Publisher: Yale University Press (March 1975)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0300016948
• ISBN-13: 978-0300016949
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,941,764 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Leonard Barkan is the Class of 1943 University Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton. He has been a professor of English and of Art History at universities including Northwestern, Michigan, and N.Y.U. Among his books are The Gods Made Flesh: Metamorphosis and the Pursuit of Paganism (Yale, 1986) and Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture (Yale, 1999), which won prizes from the Modern Language Association, the College Art Association, the American Comparative Literature Association, the Pen American Center, and Phi Beta Kappa. He is the winner of the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has been an actor and a director; he is also a regular contributor to publications in both the U.S. and Italy on the subject of food and wine. He is the author of Satyr Square (Farrar, Straus, 2006; pbk. Northwestern, 2008), which is an account of art, literature, food, wine, Italy, and himself; and he has completed Michelangelo: A Life on Paper, the first wide-ranging study of the artist's habit of writing words on his drawings, which will be published by Princeton University Press in 2010.